[Qgis-developer] Bye bye SPIT?

[Werner Macho]

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On 05/02/2012 07:31 PM, Horst Düster wrote:
> +1 on Mayeuls comment
> 
> mayeul.kauffmann at free.fr schrieb:
> 
>> 
>>> oh, yes, you're right - it's PostGIS Manager that requires
>>> shp2pgsql,
>> not SPIT. My mistake. Sure, duplication of tools is bad. But
>> removing SPIT would mean removing the *only* (correct?) QGIS GUI
>> tool to load shapefiles into postgis without external
>> dependencies. Do we want to get read of this before putting it in
>> DB manager?

The same with me (beside the fact that I just learned howto use SPIT
(thanks Horst)) it seems much more clearer to me using SPIT than using
the dbmanager (for now) ..
Don't get me wrong .. dbmanager is great but as long as SPIT is more
intuitive (maybe because it just does ONE thing) I'd like to wait with
removing it until a filedialog import has been implemented that
creates something like the batch upload which you currently see when
you add more than one shapefile ..
But I am quite sure guiseppe will have that soon :)

So..
- -1 from me for removing it right now (and probably think about the
dependencies too which mayeul pointed out)

Beside that ..
What about creating hints for obsolete plugins that are getting
removed with a hint that the function has been
integrated/extended/moved to "the new plugin" .. or maybe a hint
inside the plugin that this will become obsolete soon because the
function will be available in core/new-plugin-name.

marking plugins like that for at least one "official"-release-period
will probably easen the migration for the user too..

kind regards
Werner
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